Twice every year, one weekend during the springtime and once during the fall, we all meet in our family at Johannero in order to prepare the start or the finish of the season out here, by out leisure place, Johannero.

While the elderly part of the family and the middle part of the three generations are assisting each others carrying out door furniture, mowe the lawn, trim the gass or to cut the trees and the bushes, cleaning the garden equipment, and so on , today André ( Hanna´s boyfriend ) is devoting hours to assist Max with programmes on the iPad.

When he doesn´t play soccer along with Max.

We, the elderlies, are grateful , since we don´t feel like behaving badly, not spending time with Max, so: THANKS INDEED, André for assisting our Max with everything.

Last month of May I received a call from our son, Oscar, who informed me that he had booked me, himself along with our sons son, Hugo, to a three generations visit in Munich forthcoming October in order to celebrate the introduction day of this years OKTOBERFEST ¨which starts on September 20, 2014. Oscar had booked us into the MERRIOTT COURTYARD HOTEL which is located on a walking distance of both the Central railway station and the site of the OKTOBERFEST. We flew down and took the train, 50 minutes in to the Central station.

This was his birthday gift to his old and tired father, he said. Not bad, or ??

And : Here we are ! FANTASTIC !!!

Approximately three hundred people are expected to participate in todays celebrations in one way or another.

A consumption of 7 million litres of beer during the entire festival period 10- 14 days ahead, I don´t know the exact time this festival will proceed.

Visitors from all over the world will participate. Hotels are fully booked since months back. and, and, and...

Oscar and Hugo now are fully prepared to visit this place during the major part of the remaining time of this introduction day, September 20, 2014.

All places in these tents are completely fully booked since many, many months back. Hadn´t Oscar been assisted by his SIEMENS colleague, Magnus to be sitting by one of their tables we would never have been permitted entrance. We are priviliged in other words.

Unfortunatley Oscar was not permitted to enter with his rucksack on his back ( containing only three umbrellas and my rain jacket ) so he had to return to the hotel before he could join in.

In the meantime Hugo and I scouted the area by and large making ourselves acquinted with the site of the OKTOBERFEST. It´s alway good to be out well in time for any meeting whereever or whenever you have an

appointment to make.

"Our" tent have seats for 5830 persons inside. Plus a thousand plus seats outdoors! It even though it is one of the larger tents it still isn´t the most spacious one.

On the other hand included in the price our friends have committed to meet there is 2 x 1 litre of PAULANERbeer plus half a grilled chicken, a "Wies´n-Hendl". Per person that is.

To pay you exchange a number of coupons you have received against the agreed expenditure and in case you want anything else or more of the above mentioned you pay in cash, Euros. Plus a service fee to the lady servant who i is responsible for our tables. These servants make between 10 - 20000 Euros during the time of the festival, 14 days. Not bad but they have to work very,very hard these days !

In this room far down on the right hand side of all those longdesks there are in the middle of our tent we shall spend the forthcoming hours 11 a.m until 5 p.m, when the second sitting will take place. Then we must leave.

We are well ahead of time and so far no other guests have arrived.

Magnus, Oscar´s colleague has ordered us to meet him here absolutely not one minute later than 11 a.m.

We were invited to visit this place, WILDSTUBEN, enabling us to try and drink "WEISSBIER" before it was time for our homeward bound before the dark would arrive. Personally I am no fan of this kind of beer, being brewn from wheat and still we enjoyed a few nice hours here. Finally at the end of the late afternoon, early evening we were brought by our hosts to visit their home restaurant in another part of Münich, where we ate a superb, Italian supper, so this has been a fantastic day to experience !

MANY THANKS to all our new friends : Hanna, Eva, Maja & Uli. And finally also the boys Magnus and Sascha not the least to be mentioned!

Here people are cueing up arond several blocks before they arrive heer to thsi place where the doors soon are to be opened up making it possible for these cuers to sign up ( not as yet being able to buy one ) forthe latest edition of Apple`s i PHONE 6.

Incredible indeed. Because i believe tahat nine out of ten of these people alrady have an i PHONE in their pockets. But htne that o"old one" now is out of date when the edition No 6 is to be sold into the market.

In the old town of Munich this is the site of HOFBRÄUHAUS, one of several major beer producers in Munich. We went heer in the hope of studying the process of beer manufacturing but all in vain. The brewery behind the beer is located outside the city so here is nowadys "just" a big beerhall.

Day No 2 was approaching its end. We walked quite a distance to this place which supposedly is Munich´s largest beer hall, outside, that is. We managed to find a place to sit while eating our supper and we shared a big, round table with four young ladies who came all the way from New Zealand to visit OKTOBERFEST. Just when we had finished our meal the rain started falling. Head on ! So here we are standing underneath part of a roof and enjoying the company of three other Swedes. After quite a while, maybe three quarters of an hour ?, we could start our walk back home again after sipping another beer on the way.

In spite of the rain the air is always dry here in Munich, the capital of beer.

Our last day in Munich, Sunday September 21 2014 we planned to go to vist BMW in the morning hours. In the afternoon we were proceeding to the festival area once again before heading back home to Kastrup airport with final destination Rydebäck, Sweden.

Everyone who is to visit Munich we do recommend a visit also to BMW. The name stands for Bayrische Motoren Werke, freely translated into The Motor Workshops of Bayern.